LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 428 lives by the Life- Boats in 1893, and of 170 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which...
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Book Reviews
Trinity House by J. GROSVENOR (Staples Press, 15/-.) is a factual and ably written account of the work of the great organisation which received its charter in 1514 and which today is responsible for so many essential services, including the...
Category: Articles
M.V. Renee
Lifeboatman injured AT 05 15 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Mr Llew Hardy the station honorary secretary of Swanage lifeboat was advised by Portland Coastguard that the MV Renee was in difficulties in heavy seas 10 miles south south west of...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Category: Services
The Development of the Lifeboat By Eric Middleton
THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...
Category: Articles
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (1)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Premier
Eight-hour service for Lerwick's Arun in appalling conditions Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian spent nearly eight hours at sea in hurricane-force winds and huge seas on 12 December 1990 in what proved to be a tragically...